Minimal affectuptakeina pre-climax position of conversational ‘‘scary’’ stories  

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Sugita, Yuko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 10 (2012), page 1273-1289.
Topik: Affiliation; Alignment; Anticipatoryaffect; Multimodalanalysis; Minimaluptake; Scarystories
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Analyzing pre-climaxpositionsofeverydayaffect-ladentellingactivities,thispapershowsthatparticularfacialexpressions,suchas raised eyebrowswithanopenmouthorjaw-dropping,arethedeviceswhicharepreferablydeployedbystoryrecipientsasaminimal uptake todisplayaffiliation,especiallyinthecaseof ‘‘scary’’ stories. During thecourseofconversationalstorytelling,itisstructurallynecessarythatrecipientswarranttheteller'sspeakership.Atthesame time, aparticularaffectivedisplay---notonlyinresponsetowhathasbeensaidbutalsotowhatcomesattheclimax---appearstobecome relevant. Immediatelypriortotheclimax,whenthetelleremployselaboratemultimodalcues,therecipient'sdisplayofan ‘‘anticipatory affect’’ is maderelevant.Aparticulartypeofaffectsignalstheanticipationofwhatkindofclimaxisapproaching.Thepresentpaper explores howstoryrecipientsaccomplishthistwo-foldtask,namelytodisplayalignmentwiththespeaker'sroleallocationandlistenership on theonehandandaffiliationontheother.Thestudyarguesthataminimaluptakeiscalledfor,requiringonlyaminimalslotintheflowof storytelling andfacialexpressionsthataremostlikelytofitthisslot.

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